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Also keep in mind that, like Animorphs, groups of young people fighting evil was a big thing. Power Rangers, Captain Planet, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and a few others were all very big. Animorphs is a deconstruction of that, if anything. It (mostly) isn't a book series where everything is happy at the end of an issue, and everything goes back to the way it was without serious consequences after having learned a corny lesson. 

And the Simpsons used to be good.